Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Happiness is a green paint can

I'm so proud to show you these composting bays! Marty did a wonderful job with these second hand materials, most of it while I was sleeping off a nasty cold / flu. :) Yesterday we painted them to match the fence, and we're thrilled with the outcome!



See? They almost blend in - just a little more fence to go now...



Here you can only just see the bays at the very back. At the front are the potato cages and the "lawn" is just a mass of weeds, but they do look pretty!



Since it's suppose to rain tonight we might not get the painting finished today. Instead I would dearly love to be able to get some native trees from the local nursery and plant out a border around our property. Obviously we won't get all that finished today, but we made a start the other day when we planted the She-Oak. It's not looking very happy, so all we can do is cross our fingers and hope it recovers. The border will serve many purposes - apart from looking nice, it will also hopefully dampen the noise of the trains a little, cover the view of the silo's just a little, and also protect our property from the "Round-Up" that the neighbouring land owners insist on spraying. Here's hoping!

3 comments:

  1. Wow, the bins do look good. They blend in real nice. Good job Marty. You are quite the handy man.

    I love the older trees that you already have behind the potato cages.

    Good luck Sea Oak tree. I have my fingers crossed for you.

    Those "round-up" spraying neighbors must be happy that you two moved in and are making such great improvements to your property.

    love from, Mom

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  2. great blog, lov your cute little cottage. nice work with the compost bays :o)

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  3. Very nice. Good to see things getting into shape. Too bad more people world-wide don't take pride in their living environment.

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